Note holder as new article of manufacture



March 22 1927.

c. LILE NOTE HOLDER AS NEW ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE Filed March 11. 1926l/vvmvraa- CLARfiA/CE 411,5. 5r W Patented Mar. 22, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE LTLE, 0F GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS.

NOTE HOLDER AS NEW ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE.

Application filed March 11, 1926.

My invention relates to an article of man ufacture and is directed moreparticularly to such an article that can be used advantageously forholding paper sheets containing notes or memoranda.

The primary object of the invention is to provide an article ofmanufacture for use such as a note holder whereby the housewife mayapprise the milkman or other clelivery man of her household needswithout the necessity of oral instructions. As is well known, milkdeliveries are made in metropolitan districts principally during thenight or very early hours of the morning, and any variation in thecustomary standing instructions must be conveyed to the milkman by meansof a note or written order. If such a note is merely slipped into anempty bottle or placed under the bottle, it very often becomes lost withthe result that the special order is not supplied; and to obviate thisdifficulty, I have provided a note-holder comprising a shank in twocomponents between which the note may be gripped, the note-holder beingthen dropped into the mouth of the bottle where it is held by aloop-shaped handle.

These advantages, as Well as others, will be better apparent from adetailed description of the invention in connection with theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the noteholder carrying anote and insertedin a milk bottle (shown dotted) Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thenote-holder with the note removed; and Fig. 3 is an elevational viewtaken at right angles to Fig. 2 with a note in place in the holder.

Referring to the drawings, to represents a piece of wire bent at one endin the form of a loop 1 which constitutes the handle. of the holder, thewire then extending downwardly from the handle 1 to form one component 2of a shank 3, the shank having a second component 4 bent back onto thecomponent 2, the components 2 and i being twisted together at 5 justabove the terminal bend or eye 6. The shank component 4 ter-.

Serial No. 93,946.

minates at its inner end in an open ring 7 spaced, along the component2, a short distance from the loop 1, and the component 2 is providedwith a kink 8 opposite the ring 7 and projecting a short distance intosaid ring. The gap 9 in the ring 7 allows the crease c in the note a toreadily pass beyond the ring 7 when the note is forced between thecomponents 2 and 4. On. moving the note a to the dotted position (Fig.3), it is securely held in place, being pinched into the ring 7 by thekink 8.

It is apparent from Fig. 1 that the milkman cannot take up the emptybottles without encountering the hande 1 of the noteholder should thenote-holder be within the bottle; consequently, there is no occasion forhim to overlook the note. After he has noted his instructions andsupplied the order, he slips the loop comprising the handle 1 of thenote-holder over the neck of a bottle as shown (dotted) in Fig. 1.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. An article, of manufacture comprising a shank of substantial lengthand capable of insertion into a bottle, said shank having two componentstwisted together for part of their length, and each terminating in aneye, one of said components extending beyond the other, and having akink bent into it intermediate its ends, said kink lying adjacent to theeye in the shorter component and entering slightly therein.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a device for holding sheets of papercomprising a shank of substantial length and capable of insertion into abottle, said shank formed of two components in closely spaced relation,one of said components having a kink formed in it at an intermediatepoint, and the other component terminating in an open eye in opposedrelation to said kink, said eye and kink being adapted to cooperate forholding a sheetof paper, and a handle at one end of said shank.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

CLARENCE LILE.

